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A Study on the Major Standards and Actual Conditions of Evacuation Safety in Child Care Facility  

Park, Jae-Sung (한국사이버대학교 소방방재학부)
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Fire Science and Engineering / v.23, no.3, 2009 , pp. 93-102 More about this Journal
Abstract
Recently, the number of child care facility and social demand for high quality child care service increase suddenly. Especially, social atmosphere about fire safety is more sensitive in Korea. The majority of the residents in a child care facility are composed of early childhood having difficulty to evacuate, and therefore the number of stories of a building and the appropriateness of a evacuation equipment play an important role in the evacuation safety. In this study, problems and improvements for the evacuation safety are dealt with the present conditions of child care facilities, the comparative analysis between domestic and foreign standards, the research on the actual condition of evacuation equipments, and so on. The study brings to a conclusion that it is necessary to systematize the regulations regarding fire safety, to connect fire-fighting facilities for design standards and operations of emergency preparation equipments, to improve the regulations for fire protection system such as the sprinkler system, and to restrict the facilities having fire hazards.
Keywords
Child care facility; Evacuation safety; Fire protection system; Emergency preparation equipments;
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